Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
3/18/2013
The NRA is busy these days protecting Second Amendment rights here at home. The gun-rights group is also actively working in opposition to the UN Arms Treaty. The NRA says the treaty, supported by the Obama Administration, would restrict individual ownership and could force Americans onto an international registry.
The Washington Post reported:
…The NRA also argues that the treaty could infringe on gun rights as understood in the United States and could force Americans onto an international registry.
Activists say the NRA wants to gut the treaty. “The NRA claim that there is such a thing as ‘civilian weapons’ and that these can and need to be treated differently from military weapons under the Arms Trade Treaty is — to put it politely — the gun lobby’s creativity on full display,” Ringuette said in a statement. “There is no such distinction. To try to create one would create a loophole that would render the treaty inoperative, as anyone could claim that he or she was in the business of trading ‘civilian weapons.’ ”…
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